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C. AMARANTACE/E. 
[Trichinium. 
2. T. parviflorum (flowers small), Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 13 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. v. 222. A perennial or undershrub with a thick woody 
stock and erect branching stems, hoary as well as the foliage with a stellate 
tomentum, closely allied to T. ohovatum. Lower leaves sometimes obovate, 
but mostly lanceolate or almost linear, obtuse, thinner than in those two 
species, the stellate tomentum disappearing with age on the upper surface, 
and not very dense on the lower. Spikes at first short, but lengthening 
out to about lin. and about Jin. diameter, sessile or shortly pedunculate in a 
loose divaricate panicle. Bracts and bracteoles thin and transparent, 1 to 
1J line long, slightly woolly. Perianth about 3 lines long, the tube about 
f line long, hirsute, the segments plumose. Stamens 3 or 4 perfect. — 
Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 284; T. virgatum, A. Cunn.; Moq. l.c. 286. 
Hab.: Flinders River, Bowman; Curriwillinghie, Dalton; Armadilla, IV. Barton. 
3. T. dissitiflorum F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 89 ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 223. 
Erect and branching, hard and almost woody at the base, the branches 
and foliage more or less hoary with a minute stellate tomentum, the 
older foliage black when dry. Leaves oval oblong or shortly lanceolate, 
obtuse or acute, rather thick, J to fin. long or the upper ones smaller, 
contracted into a short petiole. Spikes interrupted, close above the last 
leaves, 1 to Sin. long, the flowers more or less distant. Bracts 
ovate or lanceolate, acute, about 2 lines long, the upper ones brown and 
scarious, the lower ones thicker and tomentose ; bracteoles rather broader 
and more scarious. Perianth 6 to 7 lines long, the tube nearly 1 line 
long and hirsute with short white hairs, the segments narrow, rigid, plumose 
outside, the glabrous tips not 1 line long, the three inner ones rather smaller and 
woolly inside towards the base. Staminal cup very woolly-hairy outside, with a 
few hairs also on the filaments. Ovary glabrous ; style excentrical. 
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Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller. 
4. T. distans (distant), B. Br. Prod. 415; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 223. A 
perennial with a hard stock at length woody, and erect virgate slender simple or 
branched stems of 1 to 2ft., glabrous as well as the foliage. Leaves narrow- 
linear, almost filiform, the lower ones sometimes 2in. long, the others much 
smaller and distant. Spikes terminal, slender and interrupted, 3 or 4 lines long, 
the flowers all distant, or in luxuriant specimens twice as long with the upper 
flow r ers more crowded. Bracts and bracteoles narrow-ovate or oblong, scarious 
and shining, 2 to 3-lines long, all similar or the bracteoles smaller narrower 
and more acute. Perianth about Jin. long, the tube about J line, the segments 
narrow, rigid, plumose on the back with small narrow glabrous tips, all glabrous 
inside. Staminal cup shortly free, with copious articulate hairs outside more or 
less continued on the filaments. Ovary hirsute on the top. — Moq. in DC. Prod, 
xiii. ii. 297 ; Ptilotus distans, Poir. Diet. Suppl. iv. 620 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 228. 
Hab.: Thursday Island, F. M. Bailey , A. Cunningham; Rockingham Bay , Dallacliy ; Cape 
River, Bowman. 
5. T. alopecuroideum (Foxtail-grass like), Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. 
ii. 13, hut not of But. Beg.; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 224. A perennial with ascending 
or erect slightly-branched stems of 1 to 3ft., the young shoots and foliage often 
sprinkled with short crisped hairs, becoming at length glabrous. Leaves linear 
or lanceolate, acute, the lower ones often several in. long and contracted into a 
long petiole, the upper ones few small and more sessile. Spikes on long terminal 
peduncles, becoming very soon cylindrical, attaining sometimes 6in. or more and 
from a little more than lin. to above ljin. diameter. Bracts and bracteoles 
broadly ovate or orbicular, obtuse, or with a small point, wholly scarious and 
shining, with the central nerve scarcely conspicuous, 1J to 3 lines long. Perianth 
